Quotes from Caitlin Thomas

... the mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy self, is squeamishly unpalatable to me.

money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.

There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality.

Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them.

My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow.

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.